On Szeto
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Beloved for its combination of thrilling combat choreography and hilarious physical comedy, the film tells the story of a humble cashier who discovers a plot to kill his small town mayor. (imdb)
Lau Kar-leung spins this kung-fu yarn that features a Manchu as the hero, something of a rarity in which Manchus are usually branded villains. Wei Fung (David Chiang Da-wei) is ordered to spy on the wealthy Tien family, who is suspected to have connections with the recently overthrown Ming. He works his way into the house by posing as a teacher for the family's spoiled daughter, Chi-chi... (All Movie Guide)
While in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic.
The hero visits a town and meets a woman whose daughters were killed. He seeks the murderers, eventually encountering three men who he initially believes are the killers, though he learns otherwise. (imdb)
A murderous psychopath is carving up the prostitutes at a ritzy Hong Kong brothel, and as the madam watches her stable dwindle by the day, suspicions soon fall on a recently-released asylum inmate who had previously been imprisoned for a strikingly similar crime.
Hong Kong martial-arts film and the first film Godfrey Ho directed. Godfrey Ho was best known for his "cut and paste" technique of splicing in scenes from unrelated movies and his fixation on having the word "Ninja" in his film titles.
After a sudden spike of supply into the drug ridden streets, staunch anti-narcotics cop hellbent on disrupting the flow of drugs beyond the Golden Triangle recruits the help of an attractive young ex-convict to infiltrate a major Thai based drug syndicate controlled by a ruthless drug lord who's expanded their operations into Hong Kong. As our seductive undercover heroine gets inside and rises the ranks to the top, skepticism also rises as the boss' jealous moll smells a plant. (imdb)
From the legendary Shaw Brothers, and succeeded by the equally surreal "Mo", Gu follows detective Bobby Wong (Melvin Wong) in the investigation of the murder of a young girl. When the girl's father (Fei Ai) admits to the murder, claiming he was under a black mage's spell (with physical proof), Bobby delves further. What follows is a colorful and occasionally sickening look at a reality-bending battle between the black mage and a monk called to battle him.
Three female cops form a special unit and get their main witness out of the clutches of a gang. The witness holds the key to Chu Chung Sing, a gang-lord who runs a night-club. They will have to face a ruthless but sentimental killer. (imdb)
Godfrey Ho's Dragon on Fire stars John Liu and Tino Wong as two men whose ancestors were the Strike Rock Fist masters. Their forefathers had a falling-out and now the two men are still mortal enemies. They learn to put their differences aside in order to defeat Phillip Kao, a master of Sun Ta. (allmovie.com)
After an attempt on his life, a Hong Kong businessman hires a local martial artist to help protect him and discover who his enemies are.
Kuan Tai Chen plays a refugee from mainland China who opens a teahouse in Hong Kong. He'd like nothing more than run an honest business, but the streets are filled with thugs from rivaling triads. After witnessing over and over that the authorities are powerless to stop the crime, he starts a dangerous game to try and take matters into his own hands by impersonating a triad boss himself.
Adapted from a Hong Kong comic book, Buddha's Palm tells the tale of a young fighter who learns the fabled Buddha's Palm technique from a blind swordsman, only to discover that he is being used as a pawn in the age-old battle for vengeance and control of the Martial World.
Bruce Li, one of the best of the Bruce Lee wannabes, is the Iron Dragon. Li "strikes back" at the men who killed his martial-arts master. As often happens in films of the sort, the rate of attrition in the ranks of the villains is astonishing. And, as always happens in films of this sort, it's one-on-one at the finale. (allrovi.com)
Righteous Captain Ling has come to town to wipe out crime, which is sure to bring up against Wicked Tiger's gang. A couple of murders occur and, initially, the investigation proves fruitless. This is mainly because the main witness, Ma San, is convinced by his brother to keep quiet. But events force him to reconsider. (hkcinemagic.com)
An awesome leg fighter wins a challenge to the fighters of a white-faced and wheelchair-bound rich man, and works for him. The sick man has a vicious friend, named Ma Ti, who uses an egg-timer and who watches the fighters to copy their styles. There are also a couple of hot-headed and righteous young fu fighters. The sick man is plotting with a suspicious foreigner to illegally export antiques and treasures. (hkcinemagic.com)
Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself ''a corrector of bad kung-fu.'' Determined to avenge their teacher and regain their honor, the three students all go their seperate ways to find kung-fu masters who will take them as students. (imdb)
Sisterhood and girl power is alive in Big Bad Sis, where three textile factory co-workers defend themselves against bullying colleagues, male thugs and a nasty casino boss. Leading the trio is 'Fearless Ying,' a tough-fisted woman on the outside but a girl in love inside. To everyone else though, she is 'Big Bad Sis.' Directed by Sun Chung, who is famous for his sweeping camera work and fluid action. (hkcinemagic.com)
Shaw Brothers' number one action hit of 1975, and deservedly so. The character of one-man kung-fu dynamo Big Brother Cheng and kung-fu superstar Chen Kuan-tai were made for each other. A Robin Hood-like restaurant manager who socks it to the thugs in order to make the mean streets of Hong Kong a little less mean, Big Brother Cheng made his first appearance in the extremely popular The Tea House, the success of which spawned this even more successful sequel. (hkcinemagic.com)
A story of a coffinmaker who tells a story about a policeman who was murdered by his wife and her lover. Eventually released constable loose of some grave robbers, the constables ghost is out to make the lives of all those involved in his death miserable. (A Shaw Brothers production) (letterboxd.com)
Of all the many kinds of films Ho Meng-Hua directed for the Shaw Brothers, quite possibly his most popular worldwide was "The Flying Guillotine". While he did not direct its like-titled sequel, he did help this great spinning beheader follow-up, which critics considered among his best. It stars the gorgeous Chen Ping ("The Miniskirt Gang", "Lady Exterminator") as the fearless title character who takes on an entire flying guillotine gang, despite the fact that she's pregnant! (hkcinemagic.com)
The hero is orphaned early on in From China with Death. The culprit is a powerful warlord, who not only kills the protagonist's mom and dad, but everyone else in the family. Thirsting for revenge, the young man trains diligently in the martial arts. By the time he's ready to take on the villain, he's a lean, mean kung-fu machine. (allrovi.com)
Ku Ju-chang, young and upright martial artist, fights and kills the viceroy's son. Ku has to leave his home and lead a floating life throughout China. One day, Ku is surprised by Old Shen, the highwayman. Shen is fatally wounded but he manages to ask Ku to look up his wife and daughter. Ku is employed to build the scaffolding for the title of Champion Boxer for all seven North China provinces. (hkcinemagic.com)
In Canton, the master of a kung fu school dies and his seemingly lazy and undeserving son, Fei-hong, inherits. In the British commercial sector, an opium den opens with the bribed approval ... (imdb)
In the vein of "Romeo And Juliet", Hong Kong style, the small ensemble cast and little-known director Michihko do a big league job with their rendition of "Romeo And Juliet" in "The Young Lovers". Although poor boy (Derek Erh Tung-Sheng) and rich girl (Yu An-An) are from opposite ends of the spectrum, their undying love refuses to let anyone get in their way, including their parents. Shakespeare would be moved. (hkcinemagic.com)
Joined by Mou Tun-fei, director Kuei Chih-hung takes his fascination of some of Hong Kong's most spectacular crimes in the fifth instalment of The Criminals. In Part 5's The Teenager's Nightmare, police have their hands full with a slippery rapist preying on helpless teenaged girls living in a resettlement area. Police are forced to use a decoy to ambush the rapist. In Gun, three teenagers' lives change forever when they find a package containing a gun, hand grenades and ammunition.
Saved from an ambush by a mythical condor, Lung Kim-Fei is flown to the bird's blind Master Ku, who teaches Lung the skills of the Buddha's Palm. In gratitude, Lung restores his mentor's sight, destroyed by Master Ku's nemesis Suen. In the process, he falls in love with Suen's granddaughter Kau Yuk-Wah. The Buddha's Palm films, based on the newspaper serial Thousand Buddha's Palm by Shangguan Hong, feature hand-drawn, animated special effects by art director Lo Ki-Ping. (qagoma.qld.gov.au)
When his connection to Master Ku is revealed, Lung Kim-fei is injured by a furious Suen but escapes with the help of her granddaughters, Kau Yuk-wah and Kau Yuk-kuen. Pursued by Suen, Master Ku must defeat his bitter rival and lay their feud to rest. (qagoma.qld.gov.au)
On the wedding day of Lung Kim-Fei and Kau Yuk-Wah, Suen is murdered. Granddaughter Kau Yuk-Kuen seeks revenge with the help of Master Ku. (qagoma.qld.gov.au)
Mortally wounded in his battle with the Three Evils, Suen's murderers, Master Ku flees to a temple and, before dying, records the ninth style of the Buddha's Palm by imprinting it on six vessels. The vessels become separated and Lung Kim-fei together with Suen's granddaughters must reunite them to defeat the Three Evils. (qagoma.qld.gov.au)
Hong Kong stars Connie Chan Po-Chu and Josephine Siao Fong-Fong join the regular cast for the grand conclusion of the series, which sees Lung Kim-fei and Kau Yuk-wah battle another dastardly tyrant. (qagoma.qld.gov.au)
Hong Kong stars Connie Chan Po-Chu and Josephine Siao Fong-Fong join the regular cast for the grand conclusion of the series, which sees Lung Kim-fei and Kau Yuk-wah battle another dastardly tyrant. (qagoma.qld.gov.au)
A female ghost possesses the body a dead girl in order to get a muscular stuntman for a boyfriend. (imdb)
A compulsive gambler with bad luck owes money to a violent gangster boss. A mysterious old man offers him a proposal to marry the ghost of his dead daughter in exchange for cash and an expensive apartment. (imdb)
Wong Fei-Hung: Bravely Crushing the Fire Formation is the last film of the long running Huang Fei-hong series starring Tak-Hing Kwan (letterboxd)
Two guys and their women constantly get harassed by a group of young motorcycle outlaws on a small island. The situation becomes deadly when one of them gets killed. (imdb)
Wong Fei-Hung takes on the the five wolves gang. (imdb)
An adventurous tale featuring Wong Fei-Hung (The Movie Database)
The legendary swords-girl Little White Dragon, helps protect a crown prince on his journey to a far off temple where he is to be blessed before becoming a Prince. His evil relatives lay traps and send fighters to try and assassinate him.Luckily, the young prince is rescued by the Little Warrior, who is known as: The White Dragon. White Dragon fights off the assassins and delivers the prince safely to the monastery. (youtube)
A crippled man with an invalid son, is so greedy that he forces his wife into prostitution. Then, he makes a deal with a crime boss to pull a big heist and invites his friends from China to help. Meanwhile, Miss Fan (Yukari Oshima), the social worker who attends to Eddy, takes a liking to police officer Peter Lee. The heist goes awry, and the couple gets involved in bringing the bad guys to justice. A tale of betrayal and revenge, in which law prevails at a great personal cost of its agents. (Wu Tang Collection)
Wonder Boy tells the story about a boy Beibei, who was electric since his birth and lived in suspicion and rejection from the others. In a lightning evening, he miraculously made a blind old man recover his sight. The scientific researchers were shocked and they began to investigate. Since then, unexpected things happened, one after another. (Wu Tang Collection)
Two sisters, seeking vengeance on a local General for killing their father, ask Wong Fei Hung to teach them his ShadowLess Kick, believing it will help them defeat the General in combat. When Master Wong refuses for pacifist reasons,the sisters try to trick his students, Club Foot Seven and Butcher Wing into helping them. (Wu Tang Collection)
Thanks to his boxing skills, a man acquires a formidable force which he puts to the service of evil. He soon discovers the error of his ways, but is it too late?
13 family members are murdered and then dumped in a well. 30 years later their descendants are cursed... (letterboxd)
When prisoner Ching is given half of a wooden keepsake by a one eyed-master about to be executed, he breaks out of prison to go in search of the other half to discover its purpose. However, on his quest he is pursued by a gang leader who will also stop at nothing find out its secrets. (88 Films)
The beloved cartoon character Master Q gets a hilarious live-action adaptation in the side-splitting comic adventure Mr. Funny-Bone! Join Master Q for a series of comic vignettes as he attempts to win the heart of the lovely Li Jing. Along for the ride is Master Q's loyal sidekick Potato, a stout fellow who's forever getting into silly mishaps. The pair get involved in plenty of shenanigans and gags, including pratfalls, low-brow bathroom humor, and even some fun fighting sequences.
Accompanied by his old manservant, scholar Sung Li Ho is on his way to the capital for the imperial exam. They spend a night in the house of Mrs. Yuan and Li Ho takes a fancy to her pretty daughter, Pei Fang. Li Ho is discovered by a maid peeping at Pei Fang as she takes a bath. He slips and falls into the bathtub, creating a most embarrassing situation. His old servant is also implicated and both are beaten up before being thrown out. Continuing their journey in the desolate countryside, ...
A Hong Kong Kung Fu master visiting America for the first time is scammed by a former student, an owner of a Kung Fu gym, to fight for him in order to settle his mounting gambling debts. (imdb)
Gold Tortoise is troubled that fairies are having such fun in heaven while people on earth are dying from drought.
A Shaw Brothers production featuring a supernatural tale of revenge. Liu Miao-Li suffers a string of terrible events. Once pushed to her limit, she decides to take back control of her existence but chooses an unlikely path to vengeance.
The plot is a trifle about an obnoxious restaurant delivery boy causing trouble with some local bad guys for the cook who secretly knows kung fu, eventually learning some techniques and finally, with the cook, confronting the bad guys.
This sequel to Mr. Funny-bone finds him, and his delightful sidekick "Big Potato", opening an Old-fashioned healing clinic.
A series of madcap adventures between two deities, who must put down their differences and work together to help the people in need.
A man's frustration at being stuck at his dead-end job with no promotion or raise in sight, along with the antics of his domineering wife, cause him to write a very harshly-worded letter to his boss, telling him he's quitting.
The Best Hustler Wins is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Leung Tin and Ku Kuan-Chung.
An unexpected windfall leads a poor country bumpkin and his uncle into a roller-coaster cycle of rags to riches.
A country bumpkin and his uncle's wild adventure in Singapore, after losing their unexpected windfall in Hong Kong. Their adventure in Singapore leaves them with bittersweet memories.
A bittersweet comedy about a simple hick who arrives in the big city to seek his fortune, “The Crazy Bumpkins” is about Ah Niu, who leaves his native village to live with an uncle in Hong Kong, not realizing he is a crook. After taking on a hilarious series of illegal jobs with his uncle, he meets and falls for a single mother and decides to find some real work. However, bad luck and naivete soon conspire to keep him from true happiness.
An anthology film featuring four true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's.
Part 1 : ‘Gun Snatchers’ - Two criminals wanted for murder are turned in by one of their own. Part 2: ‘Arson’ - A Triad revenge plan to burn down a nightclub goes wrong and results in the deaths of five people.
Part 1 : ‘Maniac’ - A gang is kidnapping and raping young women. Part 2: ‘Queen of Temple Street’ - A gambling addict sells his wife to a brothel to pay off his debts.
